Buds and Blooms Garden Club sponsoring trip to Fort Collins

Club headed to 31st Annual Terrace & Garden Tour

Posted:
06/19/2013 11:54:13 AM MDT

Saturday you and your friends could spend the first full day of summer among the plants and flowers of the 31st annual Terrace & Garden Tour in Fort Collins.

This event takes attendees through beautiful landscapes while educating experienced and new gardeners alike about the plants and flowers that make a garden become a true living space. The largest fundraiser put on by the Junior League of Fort Collins, nearly 2,000 people take advantage of this lovely tour annually.

Located in a lovely, mature neighborhood in north Fort Collins, this year's tour offers a mix of interesting garden ideas. You can spend Saturday learning about the wonderful variety of plants and flowers that make a garden become a new living space and be inspired to transform your own backyard.

The 31st annual garden tour is located north of Country Club Road and is nestled between Long Pond Reservoir and Terry Lake — just west of the Fort Collins Country Club. The tour will feature six to nine homes, many with lakefront locations, and all are in the Warren Shores neighborhood. The tour is self-guided with assistance from maps, garden descriptions, Larimer County Master Gardeners, staff from local nurseries, the homeowners and volunteers from the Junior League.

The Buds and Blooms Garden Club of Sterling is sponsoring this trip, so get your reservation in to take the big, comfortable, white Country Express coach to Fort Collins. A minimum of 20 passengers is needed with the cost coming down with more passengers going. The group will be leaving at 7 a.m. If they do not have the minimum, they will drive to Fort Collins, so be sure to call one of the numbers below if you would like to go with the group.

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Currently, tickets for the tour are $18 each, but the group may be able to get them for half price if they are purchased before June 20.

For a cool ride to Fort Collins with fellow gardeners to a great garden tour, call the club president, Dorothy Kaus at 522-5661, Diana Brungardt at 522-8389, or Myron Graybill at 522-1421.

Additional club events this month include visits to the gardens of Centennial Mental Health, Joannie Cortez at 118 Denver Street, and of Carol Ulmer at 1312 Dawes Street. The evening events begin at 6 p.m. and the meeting place is Centennial Mental Health garden. Anyone who enjoys plants and loves flowers is welcome come.

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